Building resilience to drought in Machakos District, Kenya: the Conservation Agriculture perspective

Countries
Members
Keywords
agriculture systems
climate
environment
plant production
crop protection
soil
water ecology
water technology
Institutions
Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (Kenya)
Research fields
Agriculture and Food Sciences

Objective:

The farmers’ concept of drought is an indirect result of land degradation. Crop production suffers because water (and hence nutrients) is not available due to an imbalanced soil hydrology. This project aims at investigating how conservation agriculture can improve the rootzone water balance (by ameliorating soil quality) and hence crop production on farmers’ fields in Kenya.